LETTER TO THE EDITOR (E. INDEPENDENT)

Yesterday's Elmira Independent page 17 carrys a Letter to the Editor from Ron Campbell a local resident and CPAC member. The headline of the Letter is "CPAC is accomplishing a great deal". Ron's basic message is that the January 31/12 Editorial by Gail Martin is inaccurate and irresponsible. Ron also subtly points out the fact that CPAC members are unpaid volunteers working on behalf of the community of Elmira. Not so subtly I will suggest that Gail's rant was incredibly inaccurate, unfair and counterproductive to all volunteers in our community. Yours truly posted here in the Advocate last January 31 in which I focused on the numerous, factual errors in Gail's Editorial. I didn't even mention them all because there were so many. I don't object to professionals occasionally losing their calmness and objectivity but I do object when the result is an inaccurate, downright uninformed rant that misrepresents the facts. Perhaps in future Gail shouldn't rely on her "facts" from uninformed persons with their own agenda.